Leaders of the federal court system and some members of Congress are trying to limit the practice of judge shopping — when a person or group files a lawsuit in a carefully chosen court where they believe the judge will be inclinedto rule in their favor. But none of the proposed changes seem within reach. […]Read More

President Joe Biden will head to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, seeking to cement his foreign policy legacy amid the growing threat of war between Israel and Hezbollah and questions about his administration’s handling of Gaza. The annual gathering, which brings together world leaders in New York, will mark one of Biden’s final […]Read More

In Donald Trump’s imaginary world, Americans can’t venture out to buy a loaf of bread without getting shot, mugged or raped. Immigrants in a small Ohio town eat their neighbors’ cats and dogs. World War III and economic collapse are just around the corner. And kids head off to school only to return at day’s […]Read More

Americans have increasingly soured on the Secret Service following the assassination attempt in July that wounded former president Donald Trump, according to a Gallup opinion poll released Monday. The poll shows that Americans who rate the agency tasked with protecting presidential candidates and government officials as good or excellent tumbled 23 percentage points, while the […]Read More

Several senior staff members have resigned from Republican Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor as old posts he allegedly wrote on a porn site upend his campaign and threaten the GOP’s prospects in a key battleground state. Robinson’s campaign announced Sunday that four senior leaders had stepped down: campaign manager Chris Rodriguez; general consultant […]Read More

WILMINGTON, N.C. — The scandal engulfing Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor seems career-ending to many in politics. At Donald Trump’s rally here this weekend, however, plenty of people weren’t bothered. So what if Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, is linked to a porn site user who once argued for the reinstatement of […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris continues to check the boxes in her bid to become president. From the first rollout of her candidacy through the Democratic National Convention to her debate performance against former president Donald Trump, she has mostly met or exceeded expectations. Yet to be confident of winning, she still has work to do. […]Read More

Penny Nance slid a form across the table to Donald Trump at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. Her Christian nonprofit, Concerned Women for America, wanted Trump to pledgein writing that a person’s “gender identity” doesn’t “overrule their sex,” and that if he becomes president again, “all federal agencies will be directed to uphold this […]Read More

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald Trump made no mention of embattled North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson at a rally here Saturday, as Republicans privately worried that the pivotal state could be slipping away amid scrutiny of old comments on a porn site made by a user linked to Robinson. During the former president’s speech, in […]Read More

Former president Barack Obama headlined his first solo fundraiser for Kamala Harris in Los Angeles on Friday night, bringing in $4 million for her campaign as he framed the election as a struggle against radical forces in America that want to take the country backward. The event was part of the increasingly active role that […]Read More